I'm marking this regression-release, because as commented on in the duplicate, we went from Jaunty (HAL) offering NTFS drives as 777 by default (I believe), with gconf options to change permissions, to Karmic (devkit-disks / udisks) offering no way to change permissions from 700 -- and thus no way to share an NTFS USB drive with Samba.
I'm marking this regression-release, because as commented on in the duplicate, we went from Jaunty (HAL) offering NTFS drives as 777 by default (I believe), with gconf options to change permissions, to Karmic (devkit-disks / udisks) offering no way to change permissions from 700 -- and thus no way to share an NTFS USB drive with Samba.